Many of the 298 programmers whose captioning waivers were rescinded by...
Many of the 298 programmers whose captioning waivers were rescinded by the FCC in October didn’t refile exemption requests within the allotted time, said a Tuesday public notice. It listed dozens of programmers that didn’t file a new petition by…
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Jan. 18, and so must have begun captioning their TV shows by the next day. “If the programming that is the subject of such petition aired without captions after January 18, 2012, the video programming distributor that aired such programming may be in violation of the Commission’s closed captioning rules from that date up until the time that the new petition was submitted,” the notice said (http://xrl.us/bmsx8e). The FCC in recent days has sought comment on some of the petitions that were refiled (CD Feb 9 p22).